Blog Candy–In Memory of Katie

In memory of my dear friend Katie who’s birthday is today I’m doing a giveaway

I thought I would give you all a chance to work with some Digital Stamps I have 2 prizes to give as Blog Candy

One for Mo’s Digital Pencil for a $10.00 Gift Voucher

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And one for Just Inklined for The Next Big Thing CD

* well over 400 digital stamps

* more than 30 sheets of decoupage

* printable verses

* loads of background papers

* lots of coloured card toppers

* many Never Seen Before designs

...More than 800 files of content worth well in excess of £500 in total

I would like you to tell me why you would like to win by leaving me a comment and then adding your name to the inlinkz button

 You have until Thursday midnight GMT to enter

 

 

Jacks Cheeky Face

Some things in life just make you smile and this is the one that does it for me

Easter Thoughts

Hope you are all having a wonderful Easter Weekend, we have Mam coming for her dinner, which will be lovely.

I had a late start this morning and just can’t seem to get motivated today, but I did motivate myself enough to get a card made.

Meet Easter Thoughts from D’Arcy’s Diaries 

Such a pretty little thing, I used the Spellbinders nestabilities egg dies to cut out the image then edged it with lace.

The image is coloured with Copic markers.

I used the Mei Flower Gems to highlight the Prima Blossoms, Mei Flower have free shipping this weekend so go and stock up.

What are you doing this Easter? I’d love to know.

It’s a Mans World

We’ve always joked in the house about Chris(long suffering husband) presuming the position (to sleep) on the sofa whilst watching TV, even when asleep he’s still in charge of the TV remote control. No matter how carefully you peel back each finger to get it out of his hand he always raises one eye.

I got Jim Harker to sketch this one up for Just Inklined as I thought it would be perfect for Fathers Day and Birthdays. It’s a Mans World from Just Inklined

Coloured with Copic markers and teamed with designer papers.

The only thing we are missing in this house is the dog.

Button and ribbon from Fantastic Ribbons 

I’m going today to have my nails redone as I told you I wasn’t overly pleased with the result last week. I’m getting Bio Sculpture gel nails which should allow my own to grow better without the horrible glue you get with acrylic nails.

Easter Treat–Daisy Papers Set

Happy Easter everyone, as I couldn’t get an Easter Egg to you all I thought it would be fun to give you some freebies instead, something that can be used throughout the warmer days for your crafting projects.

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Blueberry Girl

This must be one healthy little lady, they say that blueberry’s are good for you and this little lady has them in abundance.

Blueberry Girl from Mo’s Digital Pencil 

I used Stampin Up papers and edged then using the Tonic Studios geared lever edge punch a ribbon from Ribbon Carousel and some gems and pearls from Mei Flower 

I think had it been me picking the blueberry’s I’d of had the evidence all around my mouth ha ha.

Image coloured with Copic markers

What a Whopper

I simply love this, have you ever seen such a big one before?

I’ve seen ones half this size but this one is humongous. It is a Haggis of course, I friend of my husbands was in Bonny Scotland visiting his Mother and brought it back for us.

I like to slice it up, freeze it in portions and have if fried yum yum yum!

Crafty Ragamuffin

Another image that has been coloured for some time just awaiting some inspiration and then I found the background from HOTP just by chance by flicking through one of their background paper pads.

This is from the Ragamuffin Range from Saturated Canary Digis 

I added a prima blossom some haberdashery trim pearls from Mei Flower, buttons and ribbons.

I added some ink to the pre embossed blossoms on the card edge to prettify them.

I hope where ever you are that your weather is being much kinder than what it is in the North East of the UK, it’s blowing a Hooley here we've had snow sleet electricity cut and even a bit of sun this morning, crazy weather.

Spellbinders Die Storage

I don’t know about you but my dies and not just the spellbinders ones end up rattling around in a draw and I have to rummage through them to find the one I want, I have some of the smaller ones in an album but the larger ones and the border dies left me with a storage problem.

I was contacted by a company which asked if there product was something that I’d like to take a look at, so i popped over to check them out and soon realised that they could have the answer to the die storage problem.

So I was thrilled when I realised that it worked.

I know it looks like a black A4 a piece of black card but it is in fact an A4 sheet magnet, as you can see you can fit loads on it and better still it has enough pull power to keep them in one place, I even stood the sheet up to make sure they wouldn’t fall of, I then give them the shake test and they still held fast, the reverse side of mine is red but they come in a few different colours so they could be colour co-ordinated to the dies.

 

The Company is called First4Magnets and it does just stop at sheet Magnets, take a look at the size of these ones in their craft magnets and because they also do self adhesive ones they would be fabulous for the like of handbag card closures.

I was so blown away with the size of some of them that I added a 5 pence coin next to them to show you.

 

I know that Chris (long suffering husband) has his eye on some of them for his model making.

Just Inklined to Blog Hop–Pleats

Its that time again for the Just Inklined Blog hop and this month I am the host and I have chosen Pleats as the theme.

The blog hop start with me so you are at the right place, I know all of the girls have been working hard on their projects so remember to leave them all a comment for a chance to win a spot prize.

The image I used is called Poppy Cluster and it’s gorgeous, it is one of the new digital stamps and can be found here

So on to the pleats, I used a Martha Stewart border punch on some red card and scored lines on my ScorPal and carfully pleated and added it behind my image. I used Copic markers and Prisma pencils to colour the Poppy Cluster.

I used some prima resin poppies and a Cheery Lynn flourish die.

I also used some gorgeous pre-pleated ribbon from Ribbon Carousel behind the image.

Hope you like it and got a little inspiration, you now need to hop over to the wonderful Tammy’s blog as she is next on the hop and don’t forget to leave comments.

Cowgirl

Another card to showcase from the Victoria Case Stamp images, I didn’t think I would get a card made today as I’ve been cooing over my new great niece Amelia Grace, I hate to say it but I forgot to take my camera with me but I’ll take so pictures later to show you, she’s such a doll.

Cowgirl available here

She’s a bit cheeky don’t you think? Coloured with Copic markers and Prisma pencils and edged with Spellbinders edgabilities.

I sort of sensored the close up with my watermark ha,ha.

I also used a memorybox flourish die and twistered it to make a corner and added gems from Mei Flower to the flower centers then used my trusted Cuttlebug to emboss the base card with a sizzix embossing folder.

Fabulous Evening

We had a wonderful night out last night, Great company and great food. The boys hris and Russ could hardly get a word in edgeways for Sheena and myself and the chat just flowed, I love nights like that.

We all had so much to talk about and boy did we laugh, Sheena and I decided on the same meal of Lamb until we were asked what we would like then all Sheena could see in her mind were the wee bah lambs that she had just made into craft stamps ha ha, so pork it was for Sheena, if you haven't seen her latest rubber stamps you must go and check them out here, they are brilliant.

Nail Results

Ok nails are done, I have to say they are much better than they were but not as good as I would have liked.

As you can see from the pictures below I didn’t have much for them to work with. I struggle to grow my nails with the psoriasis and I would have like to have kept them totally natural but because I wasn’t totally happy with the result I painted them.

Before pictures

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After Pictures

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Ok thats it, we’re off out for our meal with Sheena and husband Russ and i’ll try to get some pictures if we come up for breath.

Especially for a Lady

Geesh it’s been hot, I managed to get my washing dried outside today, I love that. Tomorrow I’m going to treat myself and have my nails done as the sunny weather makes me want pretty nails. then tomorrow night I’ve a date with husband Chris and we are going out for dinner with Sheena Douglas and her lovely man Russ.

So onto my card, keeping in the theme of sunny days and thinking of afternoon teas I reached for the new Nitwit collection of Time for Tea and came up with this.

Isn’t it pretty? I used one of the spellbinders oval frame dies from the pierceabilities range, I played around with the time for tea collection in my graphics program to make the center piece.

I used the Mei Flower gems top and bottom of the card,I love the graduated sizes of them all on one card.

Finished it off with a pretty sheer lemon ribbon and a Prima stick pin.